COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8232, 8 September 1906, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

EKETAHUNA STOCK SALE,

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agensy Company, Ltd., report as on tbeir Eketahuna stook sale, held yesterday:—ln sheep we penned only two lines nf fair quality hoggets and one of ewes and lambs, selling at 14s 9d for the former and 14s for the latter. In cattle the yarding was fair, bat the quality, with the exception of two pens, was decidedly poor. There was a good demand for yearling cattle and steers, prices being—calves 18s 6d to 23s 6d, 18-montbs to 2-year old steers £2 10s, oows £6, £5 10s, £4 15s, £4 12a, down to £4.

MARKET REPORT. Tha following wholesale prices are quoted locally, September Bth, 190(>. £ s. d. £ s d. Flour, s'ks 11 0 0 Wheatmeal 11 0 o Pollard 7 0 0 Baled Statw 1 10 0 Chaff— Baled Hay 2 5 0 Best Oaten Barley new 4 0 0 Pearl 18 0 o Oaten Straw Onions 10 0 o chaff, new 115 0 Split Peas 18 0 0 Oatmeal 13 10 0 Potatoes 10 0 0 Bran 5 0 0 Per BusHEii. Wheat, fowl 3 3 Beans , 4■ 3 Oats, short ..28 Barley, feed 3 O Oats long ..2 8 Blue Peas 4 o Oats, dun .. 2 8 Partridge Peaß 3 6 Maize ..4 0 .Perm. Hams .. 7 Bacon 7d Cheese •.. 5£ W.RC.A. reportButter 8d to 9d Eggs 9d

First Business Man : " I see that Mr Up-to-date has just had that oldfashiened shop Trbnt of his taken out and plate glass put in." Second Ditto: "Yes! He got Robt. J, Lyttle to do it, and is perfectlf satisfied with the joo." First Ditto: " I think I will get an estimate from'him for mine^too,"